Dr. Arthur Evans Jailed for War Tax Resistance

For 20 years, Dr. Arthur Evans,
a member of the Society of Friends [Quakers] in Colorado, has refused to pay
that part of his income tax which corresponds to the percentage of the
national budget used for military expenditures. In the past the Internal
Revenue Service
(IRS)
has subtracted from his bank account the amount he refused to pay. This year,
however, the
IRS
insisted that he pay the full amount.
Dr. Evans refused. He also
refused to produce his financial records when ordered to do so by District
Court Judge Alfred A. Arraj. On
Aug. 14,
he was ordered jailed for 90 days for contempt of court.

Last January, when the
IRS was
still pressuring him to produce his financial records,
Dr. Evans replied: “I have not
changed my mind in regard to my previously stated position that it is wrong
for me to cooperate consciously and voluntarily with the state when it takes
the fruits of man’s labor and uses over half of it to prepare man’s
destruction.”

Dr. Evans is still refusing to
cooperate, and has chosen instead to serve his 90 day contempt sentence in the
Denver County Jail.

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